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Best of 2021 so far: for January
(sorry for the lead-in ad, and this being clipped — not sure why it’s getting clipped, exactly : )
Best Stuff I Found in 2020
Gonna do this fast, here, as, when I take time and mull, this annual post just gets longer and longer—me, trying to include everything. So, before I can think too much, dig back too much, and probably including stuff I should have caught in 2019, or 2002: Novel(s) of the Year Comic Book of the
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/europe/woolly-rhino-puppy-intl-scli-scn/index.html Wolverines return to Mount Rainier National Park – CNN https://apple.news/ARN2f6fEDR8GHQJucqUfIwQ https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-your-university-president-reminding-you-that-you-have-until-september-14th-to-infect-someone-in-our-college-town-with-covid https://film.avclub.com/the-new-mutants-finally-opens-this-week-here-s-why-we-1844833667 https://apple.news/Abymo8M4QR7qTNQyLpHCcoQ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story Globe Book Club: Why are there so few Indigenous crime writers? It’s no mystery – The Globe and Mail http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com/2014/06/making-franchise-friday-13th-part-2.html Personal Canons: Warren Ellis – Here’s The Thing https://apple.news/A4XFWO_dMRrCqIgl31JOUVQ https://tv.avclub.com/when-one-sketch-flopped-two-words-saved-the-state-mo-1798265654 https://apple.news/AuGNyLfe6RMq3JV9IWXHJ1A https://apple.news/AsdIqsrWPQSiFsNQjOt6I-w https://apple.news/AQ98ST7FXRLajkLPWqwNAYQ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/animals-platypus-evolution-science/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/remembering-lubbock-born-country-musician-mac-davis/ I Love Paulette Jiles’s Novels.
Never Trust a Narrator
They’ve always got an agenda, they never tell the whole story. Especially when, say . . . they’re talking about mannequins . . .
The Graveyard Shift
About the best you can have: imagining you’re the attendant at the spooky place, and you get to bring books and some etcetera with you:
Last couple of books I’m in
And, my keyboard is my backdrop, there. This isn’t MY keyboard, but it pretty much is:
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https://apnews.com/1ecd8a37bd1e4dc68ebed3c4568fcf72 https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Christopher-Columbus-statue-torn-down-thrown-in-lake-by-protesters-571149751.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-right-wing-movie-studio-enabled-the-harvey-weinstein-of-indie-film Slice & Dice: How Post-Pandemic Horror Could Lead to the Next Golden Age of Slashers – Bloody Disgusting https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html regal jumping spider – Phidippus regius C.L. Koch https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/06/09/this-incredibly-rare-white-grizzly-has-emerged-in-banff-why-experts-hope-you-never-see-it.html Another mysterious radio burst in space is repeating a pattern. This one occurs every 157 days – CNN Roman city of Falerii Novi mapped
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some of these seem to be auto-embedding just with a header-img, now. but: seems to click through. https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/04/23/indian-country-set-for-historic-showdown.asp?fbclid=IwAR22KYb_gVA7rV-ULC_2fP3cZmJvpJPlYv2cD3_2nJ9REjeFmPtLJLfjE60 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-disappeared https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/03/09/outsider-stephen-king-adaptations/ https://theoutline.com/post/8782/the-sopranos-as-horror https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/emails-from-my-childrens-school-before-8-00-am-during-the-covid-19-crisis https://bookriot.com/2020/02/27/dark-academia-books/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8262295/Pentagon-declassifies-officially-releases-three-UFO-videos.html https://www.businessinsider.in/science/research/news/ancient-tools-found-in-india-suggest-the-toba-supervolcano-eruption-didnt-leave-humanity-on-the-brink-of-extinction/articleshow/74313715.cms Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles | Literary Hub https://theconversation.com/fast-evolution-explains-the-tiny-stature-of-extinct-hobbit-from-flores-island-124747 Literary lockdown: how translating a Dan Brown novel made
Best of 2019 so far: the January post
( which is IN 2020, but about this December we just had . . . )
Best of 2019
Just like last year, I had this idea that doing a monthly post would make it a snap to figure out my best of the years: just scroll through, it’ll be obvious. I wish. Though it does make it easier to remember stuff from before summer, say. So, without further whatever, and by category, and
Best Reads from Lately
This paste-in isn’t going to be as bulletpoint-neat as before, with quotation marks and titles. But that’s just because I skipped a month of posting these, so they kind of built up, became a job. Anyway, for some reason some embeds create blank space right after them, which is kind of unkillable. Sorry for the